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was launched in 2011 and it has been published over the past nine years by PAGEPress Publications [...

Publisher's Note: Continued Publication of by MDPI.

was launched in 2009 and it has been published over the past eleven years by PAGEPress Publications [...

Publisher's Note: Continued Publication of by MDPI.

(ISSN 2039-4349) was launched in 2011 and published over the past nine years by PAGEPress Publications [...

Publisher's Note: Continued Publication of by MDPI.

was launched in 2009 and it has been published over the past eleven years by PAGEPress Publications [...

Publisher's Note: Continued Publication of by MDPI.

was launched in 2009 and it has been published over the past eleven years by PAGEPress Publications [...

Application of a battery of biomarkers in mussel digestive gland to assess long-term effects of the Prestige oil spill in Galicia and Bay of Biscay: tissue-level biomarkers and histopathology.

In order to assess the biological effects of the Prestige oil spill (POS), mussels, Mytilus galloprovincialis, were collected in 22 localities along the North coast of the Iberian Peninsula over 3 years (April 2003-April 2006). Different tissue-level biomarkers including cell type composition (volume density of basophilic cells, Vv(BAS)) in digestive gland epithelium, structural changes of digestive alveoli (mean luminal radius to mean epithelial thickness, MLR/MET) and histopathological alterations (prevalence and intensity) of the digestive gland were analysed. Severe alterations in the general condition of the digestive gland tissue were observed all over the study area up to 2004-2005.